Display-rack.



J. 0. BURNS.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I2. 19!].

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

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DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I2. 19x1.

M nfi/ I 1 I 9 JL EL.

1 J fl WP a Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH O. BURNS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO GERMAIN SEED AND PLANT COMPANY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

DISPLAY-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josmn 0. Bonus, a citizen of the United States, residing at-Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Display-Rack, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices of the character designed to hold packages or other objects intended for sale. One use to which this device is well adapted is the holding of vice that the packages will be supported above the floor of the establishment where the goods are being exhibited.

Another object is to effect the locking into open position of the movable sections by means of the support.

Another object is to produce a device of this character comprising any desired number of duplicate units, each unit being of unitary construction.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the subjoined detail description.

The. accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the rack in open position.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the rack shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional elevation on line indicated by wa', Fig. 1, a portion of the standard being broken away to contract the view.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation on line indicated by a2 w ,-Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the rack in Fig. 1 with the. foldable swinging sections in closed or folded position.

Fig. 6 is a view of one of the back-forming and partition-forming strips or blanks of the stationary section.

Fig. 7 is a view of one of the back-torming and partition-:lm'ming blanks of one of the movable sections.

Fig. 8 is a plan section on the irregular line indicated by c -13 Fig. 1.

Fig. 9 is a plan view of one of the transverse members forming the horizontal partitions.

Fig. 10 is a perspective view looking at the back of the rack with the foldable sections locked in open position.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged sectional detail on line indicated by w a; Fig. 8.

The rack in the instance shown comprises a stationary section 1 and two foldable sections 2 fastened by hinges 3 to the stationary section so that they can be extended as in Fig. 1 or folded into closed position as in Fig. 5. It is understood that the number 01 sections may be varied at will and that the size thereof may be in accordance with the desires of the constructor.

The backs of the sections 1, 2 are formed by vertical strips 4, 5 respectively, and the number of these strips may be greater or less according to the width of the sections desired. Bent from the strips 4:, 5 at right angles thereto and at both side edges thereof are Wings (3 terminating at their free ends in flanges 7 which are bent parallel to the strips and extend in front of said strips as clearly shown in Fig. 8. Adjacent wings 6 oi adjacent strips a re positioned back to back and the wings 6 are provided with one or more tongues 8 projecting through perforations 9 in horizontal transverse members 10, said tongues being bent beneath the partition members so as to securely connect the wings to said transverse members.

Each perforation accounnodates a tongue from each oi two adjacent wings. The wings thus form vertical partitions.

The transverse members themselves are provided at their ends with tongues 11 which pass through perforations 12 in vertical side members 13 0 the sections, said tongues 11 being bent over upon the outside of the side members so as to securely hold the transverse members and side members together. The lowermost transverse members 10 of the various sections 1, 2 form the bottom members of the pocket-containing recess A, and

the uppermost transverse members 10 of the different sections constitute top members of the recess A, and the other transverse members, form horizontal partitions between vertical series of pockets 11, thepockets in each series being partly separated from one another by the Wings 6,

At the top of each section 2 may be provided a space 15 for advertising purposes and also at the top of the section 1 may be provided a space 16 for the samepiirpose.

From the foregoing it is clear that the sections are each provided vith a numberof pockets capable of holding packages one behind the other, for instance, packets of seeds, and that because ,.of the provision of the .Wings 6 and the fastening of the wings to the transverse members the sections, though employing a nunib'er of units, are comparatively rig d. I I I VVhen the packets are iii the pockets 14 the front onesare retained by the flanges 7 against the pressure of the packetsbehind.

The packets may be pressed outward so as to be held in'vertical position With the outermost ones against the flanges 'iby springs 17, These springs are inserted through perforations 18 iii all of the transverse niem b ers excepting the lowermost ones and the inserted eii'ds of the sarings are bent over upon the transverse members and fastened in place by rivets 19 as clearly shown in Fios and 8. I I I I I v The sectionsl, are provided at their rear faces vvith hooks 20 adapted to hook over an upper cross, bar 21' which fastened to standards 22 connected together their lovver ends by a,loi ver cross bar 23; The standards 22 are furoated at their lower ends so as to ,form feet 24 capable of holding the standards and the sections ino'iiiited thereon in yertical position. I II I The hooks 20 are arranged in tivo series,

one series being on masseus 1 only and being near the upper portion of sai'dsection and the other series being partlyoh the section l and partly on the sections2 nearer the lower ends of ,th'e sect ions. When the upper series of hooks engages the bar 21 the sections 2 a '1 'e free to be swung into closed position, ivhen the lowerseri'es of hooks engages the bar 21 the folding sections 2 re held against closing and the three sections are raised higher on the standards than when the upper series of hooks engages said bar.

From the foregoing it will be clear that the sections can be readily stamped entirely from sheet metal andthat the varioiis parts thereof can very readily be assembled into proper relationwith' one another to complete the sections.

clear the construction and operation of the device. I

. Ordinarily when in iise the section2 Will be swung into open position and the lower series of hooks 20 vvill beengagedvwith the bar 21 as in Fig. 10 Then it is desired to close the device, the sections Will beraised to release the hooks from the bar 21 and-said sections Will be lowered to bring the upper series of hooks into engagement With the bar 21 and the sections 2 Will then be folded to'ivard the Sissies 1 so as to close all of the pockets in the sections 1 and 2, the open sides of the pockets of the settioris 2 closing against the open sides of the pockets of the section 1.

The only difference-between the sectitfii-i the sections 2 are'shallotverlnarrovver shorter than the sectioir 1,'biit it is understo'odthat all of the s'etioiis ma be of an siie desired according to the use to the rack is to be put.

I- claimi I 1. display rack comprising a stationary sectioii, a movable section hinged to'the statio'ii'ar section, and suppsrt attests-e151 en'g'ageable with the stationary section alone so that the movable sec ti'o'ii (flan ,b into dosed position and and detectably engageable With the stationary arid movable sections to prevent closing ofthe i'riovabl'e section; I I I 2. A display. rack comprising a section a backforinetlhf seems-11 iii-ranged strips, Wings extending reward from both sides of each of the baclt strips arid tenninating parallel' the back and spaced therefrom, transverse iher'r ihi's faste ned to said Wings,"aiid side fastened to the transverse members.

3 A display rackcoiiipiisinga stationery 'sectroii, a iii'ovable section hinged to eat side of the stationary sectibri, aiid a support shift'ably eiiga'geabIe f v'vith the stationary section, said support in one positioniiig the movablie sections.

. 1. A display. rack comprising sen" bent at an ahgle from strips, tr partition members having perforations, aiitl tangles Oh the snags passing through the perforations and bent benath said transverse members.

5. A display rack comprising strips, sings bent at an angle from said strips and. tea minating in flanges extending parallel to the strips, "side members haying perforations, transverse partition iiieiiibers having perfoi'ati ons and having tongiie's, at their ends passing through the perforations iii the side members and bent over oh the olit s'id's of the side members, and tongties oh the Wings passing through the perforations and bht beneath said transverse heaters;

6. A display rack comprising vertically Signed at Los Angeles, California, this extending strips each having a series of sepa- 31st day of May, 1917. rate wings along its side edges to form the sides of pockets, and a partition member JOSIAH BURNS 5 extending transversely between each two ad- \Vitnesses:

jacent wings of both series of all of the OWEN E. NELSON,

strips. WILLIAM D. WHITE.

copiee of thin patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Paton".

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